2010 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2009 Navigator Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2010, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2002 Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2009, 2006, 2004 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005, 2001, 1999 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2004 Aether National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
2003 Meditations of Spirit The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2003 A.V.C. Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2000, 1998 June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2000, 1997, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Dozier Bell: Primary Themes Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT (catalog)
1995 The Dissonant Heart (photography, in collaboration with the poet Wesley McNair)
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
1994 Original Place: Recent Work by Dozier Bell and Ken Greenleaf
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)
1991 Dozier Bell: Horizons and Beyond Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
1991 Bingham-Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989 Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
1987 O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, ME
2010 Sacred and Profane Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH
2009 Selections from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art Portsmouth Atheneum, Portsmouth, NH
2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial Portland, ME
2008 Art from Anxious Times Art Students League, New York, NY
2008 Transcendental and Sublime Gallery of Contemporary Art
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2008 Silence La Galeria, Consell de Cent, Barcelona
2008 Midnight Full of Stars Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2008 Works on Paper Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2007 New Artists Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2007 Introductions II Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
2006 The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2006 Maine Menagerie Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2005 The Environment of Landscape: Works from the Olivia and Ellwood Straub Collection
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
2004 Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape
Lehman Gallery, Bronx, NY
2003-2004 Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2002 Prelude to an Apocalypse Art Gallery of the University of New England, Westbrook, ME
2002 From Nature AVC Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2002 Past, Present, Future: 50th Anniversary Exhibition Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2002 Keenly Observed Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2001-2002 Re-Presenting Representation V Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2000 Photographing Maine: 1850-2000 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1999 Different Strokes The Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1998 After Nature The Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalog)
1998 Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature In conjunction with the American Women
Nature Writers Conference at the Payson Gallery, Westbrook College, Portland, ME
1997 Invitational Exhibition Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1996/97 Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the 90's
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (catalog)
1996 Torn Asunder: Collage in Twentieth-Century Art Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1996 Inside/Outside: Recent Photography from the MacDowell Colony Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and the Art Gallery of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1996 Changing Horizons: Landscape on the Eve of the Millennium
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (catalog)
1996 Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, and Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
1996 Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalog)
1995 Irrational Landscapes Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, and the
New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
1994 The Collectors' Show The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1994 Ten Years, Ten Artists Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994 Dialogues: On and Off the Wall Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, Garth Clark Gallery, and
Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Landscape not Landscape Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1994 Contemporary Landscapes Evans-Gropper-Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 The Collectors' Show The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1993 Landscape as Metaphor: The Transcendental Vision
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA and Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1992 On the Edge: 40 Years of Maine Painting Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Rockport ME; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (catalog)
1991 Darkness into Light Lintas: Worldwide, New York, NY
1990 Perspectives: Celebrating Contemporary Art at the Portland Museum
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1990 Beyond Black and White: Contemporary Hand-Painted Photographs
The Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989 Interstices Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1989 Vision and Visions: Contemporary Landscape Painting
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1989 New Work Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
1989 Contemporary Environment General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
1989 Landscape of the Spirit The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (catalog)
1988 40th Anniversary Juried Exhibition The Farnsworth Art Museum,
Rockland, ME
1988 The Face of the Land Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1988 Fresh Paint Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1987 Beyond Observation Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1987 New Artists: The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition
Currier Gallery,
Manchester, NH (catalog)
1987 Gallery Invitational The Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
1987 Six Young Maine Painters curated by Neil Welliver
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
2009 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2003-2004 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1997 Achievement Award and Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1995/96 Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
1995 Residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1993 Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference
Center in Bellagio, Italy
1990 Residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
1985 Residency and full scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Arthur Andersen & Company, St. Paul, MN
AT & T, New York, NY
Bates College Museum of Art, ME
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Exxon Corporation, Irving, TX
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Memphis Cancer Center, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
Nomura Securities, New York, NY
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
ORYX Energy Corporation, Dallas, TX
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Swiss Re, New York, NY
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Zurich Kemper Investments, Chicago, IL (catalog)
MFA, University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1985. Full scholarship.
BA, Smith College, 1981. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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